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Take the Board Seat, Not the Title
Directors now earn more than $325,000 a year for a job that 55% of their peers say someone on their board can no longer do. Selection criteria are finally starting to catch up.
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Leverage, negotiation, and the exit.
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Poppi's Founder Just Signed With a Hollywood Agency. Founders Are Talent Now.
Allison Ellsworth built Poppi, sold it to PepsiCo for $1.95 billion, and no longer runs it. Her new WME contract sells the story anyway, and the gap between the two is the real story.
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Phia Says It Was a Glitch. Bloomberg Says They Knew for Seven Months.
Slack logs, a suspended affiliate account, and a revenue chart that fell 65% the day the code went dark: what the timeline actually shows about Phia's cookie stuffing defense.
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The Founder Doesn't Run It Anymore. That's the New Normal.
By year three, half of founders have already lost the CEO title. The data on what happens next is messier than either the boardroom or the founder cult wants to admit.
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The Comeback Class: Four Women Who Started Over and Did It Better
Bobbi Brown sold hers and rebuilt. Betsey Johnson lost 63 stores and rebuilt anyway. The data says women are less likely to survive bankruptcy than men. Here is what the survivors did instead.
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Do You Need an Agent? A Founder's Guide.
The word "agent" now covers three different bills: a legal requirement, a rented team, and a piece of software. Founders who confuse them overpay for at least one.
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Your Company's Worst Week Is Now Your Google Result. Fix It Like This.
A single bad week can occupy page one of Google for years. Here is what actually gets content removed, what only gets it buried, and why the difference matters more than most executives realize.
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Building a Company With Your Husband: Allison Ellsworth on What It Costs
Poppi sold to PepsiCo for $1.95 billion. Allison and Stephen Ellsworth sold their cars first. The math on married co-founders, and when it works against you.
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Beauty Founders Get Magazine Covers. Deeptech Founders Get Nothing.
A cybersecurity startup with almost no women in the founder's chair raised a median Series A more than double that of beauty tech, and still got a fraction of the press. The math on who gets covered, and who gets funded, doesn't match.
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The Job Nobody Hires Until It's Too Late: Head of Compliance
Companies wait for the SEC letter before they wait for the org chart change. That sequence is the most expensive mistake in the C-suite, and the numbers say so.
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The Salary Negotiation Script That Works on a Written Offer
Exact language for the counter, the silence, and the second number.
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KiwiCo Founder and CEO Sandra Oh Lin on Cultivating Curiosity and Creativity in STEM, Part 2
KiwiCo Founder and CEO Sandra Oh Lin deconstructs stigma and biases in STEM and discusses how her company develops its products with the future of STEM in mind.
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How To Be Bold Today and Achieve Your Dreams—A Conversation with CEO and Founder Leigh Burgess
CEO and Founder of Bold Industries Group (BIG) Leigh Burgess dives into her signature BOLD Framework from her forthcoming book Be BOLD Today.
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Don’t Cut Off Those Bootstraps Just Yet—Here’s How You Can Start Your Business Self-Funded
Steps to successfully build a business through bootstrapping.
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Collaboration and Ownership: Legal Insights for Co-Founding Teams
Gain legal insights on navigating collaboration and ownership challenges within co-founding teams.
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If It’s Important to You, Do It! The Importance of Creating Balance in Your Career and Company
Why it's key to find balance in your work and life and prioritize what's most important to you.
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How Stephanie Mitchell Maintains Balance Within The Beauty Industry
Stephanie Mitchell of 931 Beauty Co. shares with SWAAY readers how she finds balance within the beauty industry.
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Ready To Throw in the Towel on Your New Year’s Resolutions? Here’s How To Get Your Goals Off Paper and Into Reality in 2024
How to set the right kinds of goals and leverage them to accomplish the things that matter most to you.
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The Most Important Thing You Need to Bring to Your Next Professional Networking Event? Curiosity!
The secret to effective networking is curiosity. It can jumpstart meaningful connections and professional relationships to propel your career.
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Why Continuous Learning Is Key to Career Advancement
Unlock the path to career advancement by embracing continuous learning, gaining new skills, and staying adaptable in an ever-evolving professional landscape.
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Taking Risks Can Be Terrifying—Here's How to Know When It's Worth It
How to know when a risk is worth it, and what you can do to shift the odds in your favor when taking a calculated risk.
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Stand and Deliver: Unstuckable Leadership with Heather Kernahan
how to prepare yourself and build the confidence to proel your business and personal growth
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Leveraging Collaboration in the Age of Business Complexity
There can sometimes be a “do it yourself” mentality as people navigate their careers. Yet, in the dynamic world of business, true independence is rare, and collaboration is often the cornerstone of long-term success.
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Lesson from Dream Big and Win by Liz Elting “No One Will Value You if You Don’t Value Yourself”
One of my early career lessons is that no one will value you if you don’t value yourself, and the importance of owning your value and accepting nothing less.
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The Grim Side of Starting a Business That No One Talks About—and Why It’s So Important to Your Success
Bringing your company to life isn’t always champagne and fireworks, and it definitely isn’t easy. It takes long hours, hard work, and passion to make your dream a reality.